CHAUCER, the critics tell us, possessed a genius eminently dramatic, and a matchless talent for story-telling, but frequently allowed his mediæval love of moralizing to defeat, for the moment, his ...

This post was updated April 3 at 3:21 p.m. Leonard Koff turns to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” as a philosophical test case. The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer runs the gamut. There are many Chaucers: funny, gloomy, pious, political, gross. There is the learned Chaucer, the feminist Chaucer, the social Chaucer, the religious Chaucer, the ...

This witty, entertaining account of Geoffrey Chaucer’s slimy conman and his moral tale stands up well in 2014 complete with delicious topical twists, an enjoyable bit of interaction and some splendid ...

One of the most pointed of all Chaucer’s stories is The Pardoner’s Tale—the story of the three young roisterers who went looking for Death. They seize an old man and mockingly demand that he tell them ...